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Creating Relational Ripples

Author(s) : Marilena Karamatsouki

Reviews and Endorsements

I read a book that moved me, a book invitation to think about my own story and course in the systemic field and reflect on the key isues Marilena Karamatsouki focuses on. As if in front of a personal diary, I let myself follow Marilena's passionate description and her persistent, painstaking and brave effort to carry out the difficult task of qualitative research of her own psychotherapeutic practice. Looking back at her own history and at the persons from various fields whose theories have inspired her from the beginning of her career to the present, she investigates and describes the "relational space'' being created "between" a therapist and the person coming to therapy and "within" the therapist. In this intersubjective universe, the cyclical flows of personal, family, social and cultural selves and their stories meet and interrelate. By narrating specific "clinical" "stories" and returning continuously to them in circular ways, Marilena introduces us to the complexity and embrace in the therapeutic relationship.
Fany Triantafillou, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist, Editor of Metalogos

This is a helpful and warm text for systemic practitioners seeking their own relational style. Marilena's invitational and conversational writing style draws the reader into an active stance of collaborative inquiry, so present in the practice-stories she draws on. She shares stories of mundane yet extraordinary aspects of therapeutic work. She explores the complex dialogical nature of systemic psychotherapy, examining how the relational space within the self-of-the-therapist intersects with the relational space between client and therapist. My strong sense was of sitting in the corner of the therapy room, poised to join the conversation, offer some resonances, puzzlements and stories of my own.
Sarah Helps, DClin, DProf, Consultant Clin Psychologist, Systemic Therapist, Editor of JFT